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September Events...

  • !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival
  • A Night of Horror
  • Ambulante Film Festival
  • Art200 International Queer Film Festival
  • Calgary International Film Festival
  • Cinema Diverse!
  • D'un bord à l'autre
  • DC Shorts Film Festival
  • Edmonton International Film Festival
  • Encounters
  • Fabulous Independent Film Festival
  • Fantastic Fest
  • festheart
  • Festival Massimadi
  • Festival MIX MILANO di Cinema Gaylesbico e Queer Culture
  • Fragments Festival
  • Fresno Reel Pride Film Festival
  • Fringe! The London Gay Film Fest
  • Great Lakes International Film Festival
  • Haifa International Film Festival
  • LA Queer Film Festival
  • Llamale H
  • London Spanish Film Festival
  • Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival
  • Nashville Film Festival
  • Netherlands Film Festival
  • New Farm Queer Film Festival
  • New Renaissance Film Festival - London
  • New York Film Festival
  • Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival
  • Oslo/Fusion Filmfest
  • OUT at the Movies
  • Out on Film
  • Premio Sebastiane
  • QFest New Jersey
  • Queer Lisboa
  • QueerFilmFest Rostock
  • Reel Pride Winnipeg
  • Reeling Filmfest
  • Reykjavik International Film Festival
  • Rose City Comic Con
  • San Sebastián International Film Festival
  • Scottish Queer International Film Festival
  • Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival
  • Some Prefer Cake
  • Stamped: Pensacola LGBT Film Festival
  • Vancouver International Film Festival
  • Vues d'en Face - Grenoble
  • Zurich Film Festival
BFI Flare

BFI Flare

London LGBT Film Festival

 

Our coverage 2022 here

Our coverage 2021 here

Our coverage 2020 here

Our coverage 2019 here

Our coverage 2018 here


 

Stories help us understand ourselves and others. In recent years we’ve found so many kinds of queer stories in film, television and video games. This year’s BFI Flare programme demonstrates just how rich and diverse LGBTQIA+ stories in film can be. For so long, our histories were largely hidden – invisible to many. It took generations of individual and communal bravery, ingenuity and struggle to make us visible. Throughout this exciting programme, you will find so many wonderful and previously untold stories; both imagined and those that explore our truths and personal histories – ones that shine a light on the champions who preceded us. And filmmakers have the power to help us remember them so vividly. We can’t wait for you to delve into the stories in Flare this year. Whether you find them at the BFI Southbank or on BFI Player, it’s our pleasure to welcome you to being part of our BFI Flare community.

Tricia Tuttle, BFI Festivals Director and Ben Roberts, BFI Chief Executive

From the BFI Flare programmers

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well, someone should put a limit on that fondness, because our hearts are about to burst. It’s hard to believe it has been three years since Flare last took over BFI Southbank, filling its screens, bars and corridors with that unique, yet somehow indefinable, sense of queer magic. Since then, we have brought the Festival into your homes with Flare online – a new tradition that we are delighted to be continuing this year. But let’s be honest, nothing beats the feeling of being surrounded by your chosen LGBTQIA+ family, basking in the glow of great cinema. And now that we are finally back, we hope you’ll agree it’s with a bang. Over the 12 days of Queer Christmas we want to make you laugh, cry, think, scrutinise, question, debate and… well, give you all the feels. You deserve them. We’ve missed you!

Grace Barber-Plentie, Jay Bernard, Michael Blyth, Zorian Clayton, Brian Robinson, Emma Smart, Festival Programmers


 

Films A to Z

All films screening in the BFI Flare Festival 2023.

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A

B

C

D

E

F

G

  • G Flat, screening in the short films programme Music is the Food of Love
  • Gaia, screening in the short films programme I Need I Want I Will: UK shorts programme
  • gaze, screening in the short films programme I Need I Want I Will: UK shorts programme
  • Gem, screening in the short films programme Ethereal Existence
  • Golden Delicious
  • Golden Voice, screening in the short films programme Don’t Take the System for an Answer
  • Grace & Sophie, screening in the short films programme One Night Only
  • Grafting Self, screening in the short films programme Ethereal Existence
  • Gyal , screening in the short films programme Chasing the Divine

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

  • Oisín, screening in the short films programme In a Truthful Space
  • Outdoors, screening in the short films programme Only Connect

P

R

  • Repair, screening in the short films programme I Need I Want I Will: UK shorts programme
  • Ripples, screening in the short films programme Sea, Swallow Me
  • Rule 34
  • Runaways, screening in the short films programme Only Connect

S

T

U

W

X

Y

  • Ya Benti, screening in the short films programme It’s Not You, It’s Me
  • You Like That, screening in the short films programme I Need I Want I Will: UK shorts programme